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Meet Jake Cassaday, Partner at Relay Ventures

by Steven Loeb, February 13, 2019

Cassaday was promoted to Partner at the firm at the end of January

Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more startups than ever, there's also more money chasing them. In this series, we look at the new (or relatively new) VCs in the early stages: seed and Series A. But just who are these funds ...

Meet Andy Johns, General Partner at Unusual Ventures

by Steven Loeb, February 6, 2019

Johns was previously President of Wealthfront, and also worked at Facebook, Twitter and Quora

Meet Ludwig Pierre Schulze, Managing Partner at Waterman Ventures

by Steven Loeb, January 31, 2019

Waterman Ventures is a fund set up to help Brown University alumni get access to capital

Meet Jun Deng, Partner at Joyance Partners

by Steven Loeb, January 2, 2019

Deng focuses on biotech investment at Joyance and is also a venture partner at Social Starts

Meet Paul Bernard, Director of Worldwide Corporate Development of the Alexa Fund at Amazon

by Steven Loeb, December 18, 2018

Bernard used to lead inorganic growth initiatives for Kindle and Digital Services

Meet Keith Figlioli, General Partner at LRVHealth

by Steven Loeb, November 30, 2018

LRVHealth is a collaborative investing platform for healthcare insiders, by healthcare insiders

Meet Jake Chapman, Managing Partner at Alpha Bridge Ventures

by Anna Vodopyanova, November 8, 2018

The VC firm says it takes seriously the health and wellness of the founders it supports

As entrepreneurship has become a global meme, with the title of “Founder” worn like a badge of accomplishment, there's no shortage of emerging investors to fund these wide-eyed optimists. Just who are these funds and venture capitalists that run them? We're highlighting key members of the community to find out. One VC says his firm supports companies starting with the ...

Meet Ben Joseph, President of Mend Medical

by Steven Loeb, November 2, 2018

Mend Medical, an investing arm of Ambassador Enterprises, launched last week

Meet Yashwanth Hemaraj, partner at Benhamou Global Ventures

by Steven Loeb, October 17, 2018

Hemaraj also heads up Arka Venture Labs, an accelerator platform for India based B2B companies

Meet Kristin Gunther, Vice President at Revolution

by Anna Vodopyanova, September 21, 2018

Revolution Growth fund focuses on later-stage startups outside of the typical hubs

As entrepreneurship has become a global meme, with the title of "Founder" worn like a badge of accomplishment, there's no shortage of emerging investors on hand to fund these wide-eyed optimists. Just who are these funds and venture capitalists that run them? What kinds of investments do they like making, and how do they see themselves in the VC landscape? ...

Meet Casey Berman, General Partner at Camber Creek

by Steven Loeb, September 19, 2018

Camber Creek invests exclusively in real estate technology companies

Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed. While there are more startups than ever, there's also more money chasing them. In this series, we look at the new (or relatively new) VCs in the early stages: seed and Series A. But just who are these funds and ...

Meet David Hall, Partner at Revolution

by Anna Vodopyanova, August 10, 2018

Revolution VC has invested over $1 billion in firms outside Silicon Valley

Meet T.J. Rylander, Partner at Next47

by Anna Vodopyanova, July 17, 2018

Next47 incorporates the global Siemens ecosystem into its startups

Meet Shyam Kamadolli, Managing Partner at AVG Blockchain Fund

by Anna Vodopyanova, May 29, 2018

Venture capitalist who says his industry was the first to be disrupted by blockchain technology

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